CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 
2     References
 
3     Definitions
 
4     Abbreviations  
 
5     Overview and requirements       
        5.1     Overview 
        5.2     High-level requirements   
 
6     RACF mechanisms and scenarios          
        6.1     QoS resource control mechanisms and scenarios 
        6.2     NAPT control and NAT traversal mechanisms and scenarios     
 
7     Functional architecture  
        7.1     Overview 
        7.2     Functional entity descriptions      
        7.3     Mechanisms         
 
8     Reference points
        8.1     Reference point Rs          
        8.2     Reference point Rw         
        8.3     Reference point Rc          
        8.4     Reference point Ru          
        8.5     Reference point Rt           
        8.6     Reference point Rp          
        8.7     Reference Point Ri           
        8.8     Reference point Rd          
        8.9     Summary  
 
9     Procedures
        9.1     Procedures for QoS control         
        9.2     Procedures for NAPT control and NAT traversal           
10     Inter-operator communications for end-to-end QoS control    
11     Security considerations and requirements        
       11.1     Overview of threats and potential attacks          
       11.2     Security requirements     
Appendix I – Examples of the implementation of the RACF architecture     
Appendix II – TRC-FE over different transport technologies     
       II.1     TRC-FE over IP network
       II.2     TRC-FE over MPLS network      
       II.3     TRC-FE over Ethernet network  
       II.4     TRC-FE over broadband wireless network         
Appendix III – Example of methods for detecting and determining resource  availability in TRC-FE     
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